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APPENDIX D. 



The following verses by Sir Mortimer Durand, K.C.S.I., 

 appeared in an Indian newspaper shortly after Hodson's 

 death. They have since been quoted by Mr David Eoss 

 in his 'Land of the Five Eivers and Sindh.' They are 

 supposed to represent the feelings of an old Sikh warrior, 

 Attar Singh : — 



" I rode to Delhi with Hodson : there were three of my father's sons ; 

 Two of them died at the foot of the Eidge, in the line of the Mori's 



guns. 

 / followed him on when the great town fell ; he was cruel and cold, 



they said : 

 The men were sobbing around me the day that I saw him dead. 



It is not soft words that a soldier wants ; we know what he was in 



fight; 

 And we love the man that can lead us, ay, though his face be white. 



And when the time shall come, sahib, as come full well it may, 

 When all things are not fair and bright, as all things seem to-day, 

 When foes are rising round you fast, and friends are few and cold. 

 And half a yard of trusty steel is worth a prince's gold, 

 Remember Hodson trusted us, and trust the old blood too, 

 And as we followed him — to death — our sons will follow you." 



